Senior Computational Chemist

8 hours ago


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom SLS Services Limited Full time

Explore a dynamic role at SLS Services Limited, where you will leverage your expertise in computational chemistry to drive innovation in drug discovery. This position requires an experienced chemist with a strong background in virtual screening, molecular dynamics, and machine learning applications.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and ambitious computational chemist to join our clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. As part of our team, you will work on various projects across different therapeutic areas, from hit identification to lead optimisation.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Providing computational chemistry expertise to cross-functional teams to support drug discovery projects.
  • Contributing to the development of computational chemistry technologies for drug discovery within the company.
  • Developing and implementing tools and workflows to extract, integrate, analyse and visualise chemical, biophysical and ADMET data.

Key Qualifications:

Essential Requirements
  • Industry experience or postdoctoral experience in computational chemistry.
  • Practical knowledge of conducting and analysis of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using standard software such as OpenMM, AMBER, and/or GROMACS.
  • Experience in QSAR virtual screening, ideally with peptides.
  • Experience in writing analysis scripts and pipelines in common scripting languages, such as Python, in Jupyter notebooks or as standalone scripts.
  • Experience in amino acid and peptide modelling.
  • Practical knowledge of Free Energy Perturbation (FEP) calculations.
  • Use of HPC.
Desirable Skills
  • Knowledge of cheminformatics methods and databases.
  • Practical knowledge of quantum mechanical calculations (QM).
  • Skills in machine learning, deep learning, statistical modelling, and advanced data analytics.
  • Experience in drug discovery organisation(s).

We offer a competitive salary range of $120,000 - $180,000 per annum, depending on experience, as well as a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for career growth and professional development.



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